dis2@houxm.UUCP (A.NESTOR) (05/11/84)
"Wagner's music is much better than it sounds."
George Bernard Shaw
'The Perfect Wagnerite'
Shaw made this remark unfacetiously in praise of what he regarded
as the anagogical content of Wagner's music. Might not the same
remark apply equally well to Cage?; to Schoenberg?; to Webern?
To whom else?
How about composers whose music is much worse than it sounds?
I would nominate Vivaldi*, Beethoven, Listz, Verdi, and Mahler.
(Bruckner, Meyerbeer, Franck, Delius, and Resphigi are beneath
consideration!)
*Of whom Stravinsky said, "He wrote one cncerto 100 times".rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (05/11/84)
[] Stravinsky Who?
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (05/11/84)
Please excuse previous item by this author. I must learn to ignore cheap shots.